A Choice of Weapons
• Gordon Parks • ISBN 9780873517690
A Choice of Weapons
• Gordon Parks • ISBN-13 9780873517690
ISBN-10 0873517695
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ISBN 9780873517690 • Completeness 51
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This compelling autobiography, first published in 1966, now back in print by popular demand and with a new foreword by Wing Young Huie, tells how Parks managed to escape the poverty and bigotry around him and to launch his distinguished career by choosing the weapons given him by "a mother who placed love, dignity, and hard work over hatred." Parks, the first African American to work at Life magazine and the first to write, direct, and score a Hollywood film, told an interviewer in 1999, "I saw that the camera…
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